Lepanthes arbaceae Luer & Cloes 2002 SUBGENUS Lepanthes SECTION Lepanthes SUBSECTION Lepanthes SERIES Lepanthes
Photo by © Lisa Thoerle
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and Selbyana Webpage
Common Name The Arbacea Lepanthes [Named for the order Arbacea, the sea urchins, of Echinodermata, referring to the lip]
Flower Size .28" [7 mm]
Found in Pasco department of Peru as a miniature sized epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 10 to 15 sparsely ciliate lepanthiform sheaths with dilated ostia and carrying a single, apical erect, coriaceous, broadly elliptical-ovate, obtuse, shortly acuminate, rounded and contracted below into the petiole base leaf that blooms on an erect, borne behind the leaf, peduncle slender, 1.2 to 1.8" [3 to 4.5 cm] long, rachis .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm] long, congested, successively single, many flowered inflorescence with oblique, as long as the pedicel floral bracts.
"Characterized by a broadly elliptical-ovate leaf borne by a longer ramicaul. The raceme is short, congested, suc-cessively many-flowered, and borne beyond the tip of the leaf by a slender peduncle from behind the leaf. The sepals are carinate-erose and cau-date. The petals are transversely bilobed with a caudate lower lobe. The blades of the lip, borne by broad connectives, are densely long-ciliate the two appearing suborbicular, suggesting a species of sea urchin." Luer 2002
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Miscellaneous new Species in the Pleurothallidinae Selbyana Vol 23 # 2 pg 22 Luer 2002 drawing fide;
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